Toxicity is the second album by American heavy metal band System of a Down. Produced by Rick Rubin, Toxicity was released on September 4, 2001 by American Recordings, debuting at #1 on both the United States, with 220,000 copies, and #1 on the Canadian charts. Toxicity has sold over 12 million copies worldwide and is multi-platinum in the United States. [wikipedia]
rammstein takes their name indirectly from the german town of ramstein-miesenbach, the site of the flight show disaster on 28 august 1988. the band’s signature song, “rammstein”, is a commemoration of the disaster. in a short period before the band became well known, they performed using the name “rammstein-flugschau” (literally meaning “rammstein-flightshow”). [wikipedia]
“toxicity” is a single by system of a down, released in 2002. it was originally released on the album of the same name.
the writing credit for the song is malakian/odadjian/tankian. [wikipedia]
the following is a violin cover of the song by lynn, wu, and cohen.
jennifer lynn: electric violin
christine wu: electric violin
meytal cohen: drums
“turn the page” is a song originally released by bob seger in 1973 on his back in ’72 album. though never released as a single, seger’s live version of the song on his 1976 live bullet album became a mainstay of album-oriented rock radio stations, and still gets significant airplay to this day on classic rock stations. [wikipedia]
metallica later covered the song, as the first single from their 1998 garage inc. album, reaching #1 on the billboard hot mainstream rock tracks chart for 11 consecutive weeks, the highest number of weeks metallica has ever spent at the top; drummer lars ulrich had heard the original song while driving across the golden gate bridge and later commented that he thought it “had james [hetfield] all over it”. metallica’s rendition is taken at much the same tempo as seger’s, but with a heavier feel; the saxophone part is replaced by a high slide guitar line from kirk hammett and james hetfield played a guitar solo before the last run through the chorus. metallica’s music video for the song, directed by jonas åkerlund, is about the life of a stripper who prostitutes herself while she is trying to raise a child; the prostitute/stripper is played by ginger lynn allen. [wikipedia]
scorpions are a heavy metal/hard rock band from hannover, germany, known for their 1980s rock anthem “rock you like a hurricane” and their singles “no one like you”, “send me an angel”, “still loving you”, and “wind of change”. the band were ranked #46 on vh1′s greatest artists of hard rock program. “rock you like a hurricane” is also #18 on vh1′s list of the 100 greatest hard rock songs. on january 24, 2010, after 45 years of performing, the band announced that they will be retiring after touring in support of their new album sting in the tail. [wikipedia]
